On the Xylaria in scrub jungles of southwest India Author Syed, Tahir Author Sharathchandra, Kodandoor Author Sridhar, Kandikere R text Species 2023 e 9 s 1009 2023-01-25 24 73 1 9 https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e9s1009 journal article 309769 10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e9s1009 479d5400-2342-4bae-82e5-8b8e3c34b744 2319-5754 15391084 Xylaria grammica (Mont.) Fr., Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. (Ser. 3) 1: 128 (1851) Occurs in small troops, rare, annual, odour and taste not distinct and inedible. Stromata initially dull-black, long and smooth with smoky-white spore deposits. It becomes brown, cylindric to fusoid, elongated, smooth to warty, longitudinal striations, round to obtuse apex, fertile head into blackish-brown to dull-brown, short stem deeply embedded in the bark with short rooting base, occasionally branched at the tip and white hard flesh on maturity. Papillate ostiole and stromata measures 20-50 mm × 2-4 mm . Sub-spherical perithecia, black, embedded in the fertile head, arranged as a dense layer below the surface and measure 0.1-0.2 mm diameter. Asci long stipitate, cylindrical, 8-spored and measure 40-60 × 3.5-4.5 μm. Ellipsoidal ascospores, uniseriate, brown, aseptate and measure 4-5 × 2-3 μm. Substrate and distribution On the dead attached bark of Eucalyptus tereticornis in Konaje, Mangalore , Karnataka , India (July-September) (Sharathchandra, 2020) ( Figure 3 ).